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Internationalisation of the contemporary university has become a
pervasive and powerful development theme during the past three
decades. In many countries, higher education is now a major export
industry. The UK has longstanding experience of overseas student
recruitment, international partnerships between universities and
trans-national education. It has led the world in the development
of the quality assurance of overseas activities. This collection of
essays brings together articles published in the journal of the UK
Association of University Administrators (AUA). Several of the
pieces are members of AUA whilst others are by authors who work in
other countries. Overall, in this volume, there is a practitioner
focus that provides the reader with lessons learnt by those with
experience of implementing policies to promote the
internationalisation of higher education. We are interested both in
how universities can manage the challenges that they face, and in
how the experience of students can be enhanced by participation in
internationalisation. Because the AUA has an enduring commitment to
the professionalization of management and administration, readers
of this anthology will find accessible, focussed and brief articles
that are solution-oriented. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Perspectives: Policy and Practise in Higher
Education.
Acclaimed as one of the sharpest political intellects of his
generation, David Laws saw his ministerial career nosedive before
it had begun when, after only seventeen days as Chief Secretary to
the Treasury, he was forced to resign when unintended breaches of
parliamentary expenses rules came to light. You can't keep a good
man down, however, and he returned to government, where he was also
responsible for the implementation of the coalition agreement and
planning the Lib Dems' strategy in the run-up to the 2015 election.
David began writing a diary in March 2012 and continued writing it
throughout his ministerial career and up to the 2015 election,
which devastated the Liberal Democrats in Parliament.Frank,
acerbic, sometimes shocking and often funny, Coalition Diaries
chronicles the historic Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition
government, offering extraordinary pen portraits of all the
personalities involved, some of whom were cast aside at the
election or put to the knife after Brexit, while others are active
in today's government.
Internationalisation of the contemporary university has become a
pervasive and powerful development theme during the past three
decades. In many countries, higher education is now a major export
industry. The UK has longstanding experience of overseas student
recruitment, international partnerships between universities and
trans-national education. It has led the world in the development
of the quality assurance of overseas activities. This collection of
essays brings together articles published in the journal of the UK
Association of University Administrators (AUA). Several of the
pieces are members of AUA whilst others are by authors who work in
other countries. Overall, in this volume, there is a practitioner
focus that provides the reader with lessons learnt by those with
experience of implementing policies to promote the
internationalisation of higher education. We are interested both in
how universities can manage the challenges that they face, and in
how the experience of students can be enhanced by participation in
internationalisation. Because the AUA has an enduring commitment to
the professionalization of management and administration, readers
of this anthology will find accessible, focussed and brief articles
that are solution-oriented. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Perspectives: Policy and Practise in Higher
Education.
When David Cameron and Nick Clegg stepped out into the rose garden
at No. 10 to launch the first coalition government since the Second
World War, some doubted whether the coalition could survive a full
term - or even a full year. Five years later, this bold departure
for British politics had weathered storms, spending cuts and
military strikes, rows, referendums and riots.In this compelling
insider account, David Laws lays bare the inner workings of the
coalition government from its birth in 2010 to its demise in 2015.
As a key figure at the heart of government, he witnessed first-hand
the triumphs, the tantrums and the tactical manoeuvrings.Now, he
brings this experience to bear, revealing how crucial decisions
were made and uncovering the often explosive divisions between and
within the coalition parties. Honest, insightful and at times
shocking, Coalition shines a powerful light on perhaps the most
fascinating political partnership of modern times.
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted
and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public
sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical
challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the
interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The
book examines street level democratic processes through the
experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in
community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban
public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social
policy. These profiles and case studies show widely shared
challenges in global and local urban environments, and new,
"bottom-up," democratic and improvisational strategies that
community members and public officials alike can use to make more
inclusive, democratic cities.
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted
and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public
sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical
challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the
interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The
book examines street level democratic processes through the
experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in
community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban
public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social
policy. These profiles and case studies show widely shared
challenges in global and local urban environments, and new,
"bottom-up," democratic and improvisational strategies that
community members and public officials alike can use to make more
inclusive, democratic cities.
"I just loved this book. Full of surprises and twists and turns!"
--Amazon reviewer, five stars A woman of humble origins fights to
overcome every obstacle to pilot a plane in World War I Britain, in
a novel by the author of The Fuhrer's Orphans . . . Being female
means that Charlotte Dovedale's dreams are likely out of reach. Her
mother is eager to support Charlotte's brother in his quest to join
the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, but Charlotte is left to
channel her energy into the suffragette movement. When she meets
upper-class Scott Fanshawe, though, he opens a door for her:
teaching her to fly. It soon becomes clear that Charlotte has not
only the skill, but the bravery required for aviation. However,
when she finally earns her pilot's license, the Great War breaks
out and threatens to keep her grounded. It will take all of
Charlotte's daring and determination to succeed and soar--in a
risky adventure that will put her face-to-face with the enemy . . .
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Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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will bring you into your inheritance. When will you dine with me?"
" I have an engagement to-morrow evening; the next evening- I am at
your service." " Good I shall call for you at six." And so the two
gentlemen parted, each with a growing interest in the other.
CHAPTER VI. A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. The Hendersons lived in one of
those old-fashioned streets on the west side of town, which have
been left far behind by the upward march of fashion, but have not,
as yet, yielded to the encroachments of business, nor been given up
to the gradual deterioration that seizes hold of tenement blocks.
Forty years ago, these solid and really comfortable brick houses
were occupied by the same class relatively, that now live in the
brownstone fronts that stretch northward from Madison Square to
Central Park. The street in question was very quiet, and extremely
respectable. It is not necessary to mention the precise location,
but it was some distance south from Union Square, and to the
westward of Broadway. It was owned by Mrs. Henderson; and now that
their cash capital had been sunk by Herbert, it represented the
entire wealth of the family. The mother and daughters were seated
in die front room of the first floor?a room extending the whole
length of the building, divided in the centre by folding doors,
which were always open. It was the parlor, so-called, but was also
the sitting-room; and a very pleasant and cheery room it was. The
furniture was rich, but faded with the daily use that takes from
lustre and adds to comfort. The chairs were wide and deep, and the
lounges inviting. Mrs. Henderson was a small woman with a fair and
quiet face, and perfectly white hair. She sat in a rocking-chair,
knitting placidly, and was a picture of kindly and beautiful old
age. Th...
What lies ahead for the global political economy? How can policy
makers channel economic development to increase the chances for
peace and prosperity? From a wide range of theoretical viewpoints,
Gill and Law examine how politics help shape international economic
relations and how economic changes and structures affect political
forces.
In June 1916, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener set sail from Orkney on
a secret mission to bolster the Russian war effort. Just a mile off
land and in the teeth of a force 9 gale, HMS Hampshire suffered a
huge explosion, sinking in little more than fifteen minutes. Crew
and passengers numbered 749; only twelve survived. Kitchener's body
was never found. Remembered today as the face of the famous First
World War recruitment drive, at the height of his career Kitchener
was feted as Britain's greatest military hero since Wellington. By
1916, however, his star was in its descent. A controversial figure
who did not make friends easily in Cabinet, he was considered by
many to be arrogant, secretive and high-handed. From the moment his
death was announced, rumours of a conspiracy began to flourish,
with the finger pointed variously at the Bolsheviks, Irish
nationalist saboteurs and even the British government. Using newly
released files kept secret for almost 100 years, former Cabinet
minister David Laws unravels the true story behind the demise of
this complex figure, debunking the conspiracy theories and
revealing the crucial blunders that the government and military
sought to cover up. The result is the definitive account of an
event that shook the country and which has been shrouded in mystery
ever since.
British Victorians were obsessed with fluids with their scarcity
and with their omnipresence. By the mid-nineteenth century,
hundreds of thousands of citizens regularly petitioned the
government to provide running water and adequate sewerage, while
scientists and journalists fretted over the circulation of bodily
fluids. In The Social Life of Fluids, Jules Law traces the
fantasies of power and anxieties of identity precipitated by these
developments as they found their way into the plotting and rhetoric
of the Victorian novel.
Analyzing the expression of scientific understanding and the
technological manipulation of fluids blood, breast milk, and water
in six Victorian novels (by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George
Moore, and Bram Stoker), Law traces the growing anxiety about
fluids in Victorian culture from the beginning of the sanitarian
movement in the 1830s through the 1890s. Fluids, he finds, came to
be regarded as the most alienable aspect of an otherwise
inalienable human body, and, paradoxically, as the least rational
element of an increasingly rationalized environment.
Drawing on literary and feminist theory, social history, and the
history of science and medicine, Law shows how fluids came to be
represented as prosthetic extensions of identity, exposing them to
contested claims of kinship and community and linking them
inextricably to public spaces and public debates."
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